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Paul Sullivan: Willson Contreras is a St. Louis Cardinal — and we still don’t know why the Chicago Cubs didn’t want to keep him

Chicago Cubs catcher Willson Contreras gets emotional after a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, July 26, 2022, at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

Chicago Cubs President Jed Hoyer assuredly said all the right things about catcher Willson Contreras after his agreement with the St. Louis Cardinals was revealed.

The Cubs will miss him.

Oh, he was such a great person.

All the luck in the world, Willson.

It was everything you would expect Cubs management to say after losing one of the team’s best players to its biggest rival.

But what we didn’t hear was why.

Why did the Cubs not want to keep Contreras?

After all

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